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  • Film Fridays: Dreams come true – discovering a stash of untouched Soviet-era cameras

    To any collector/enjoyer of old cameras, the idea of stumbling upon on enormous stash of mint-condition gear, from a long-gone era, is the ultimate dream. And that dream recently became a reality for one lucky gentlemen in Kazakhstan, who discovered hundreds of “brand-new” Soviet-era cameras – including the Smena 8M (shown above) – packed inside wooden crates and stored in a warehouse, untouched likely since the early 1990’s. Read on…

    Read: A secret stash of hundreds of Soviet cameras found in a Kazakh warehouse

    About Film Fridays: We recently launched an analog forum and in a continuing effort to promote the fun of the medium, we’ll be sharing film-related content on Fridays, including articles from our friends at KosmoFoto and 35mmc.

    Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Collector’s cache of Soviet-era camera prototypes stolen in Germany

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    On October 3, camera collector Ilya Stolyar was at the Berlin Central Station in Germany when a thief stole his backpack containing rare Soviet camera prototypes. Stolyar describes these cameras as incredibly rare and highly valuable, the kind that would be sold through auction houses for, in some cases, substantial sums of money.

    Stolyar spoke with PetaPixel about the theft, saying, ‘These cameras pretty much are one of a kind factory prototypes that cost some really serious money on collectors market. You can probably trade some of these cameras for cars. Those are pretty much Christie’s-grade cameras.’

    Unfortunately, Stolyar has not recovered the cameras at this time, though he is offering a reward to those help get any of the cameras back. His contact information can be found in this forum post. Among the stolen items were the following rare cameras:

    • FED 20 
    • FED Romashka Serial 210120
    • Elicon 35C Prototype
    • Elicon 35C MMZ
    • Zenit 19 Prototype (Belomo)
    • Zenit APK (Belomo)
    • Zenit ET Prototype
    • Agat 18 Belomo
    • and Lens
    • Yantar 5 MCE prototype

    Via: PetaPixel

    Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)